In his article, America's Car Culture: Almost Out of Gas Robert Puentes discusses the link between how America's cities are designed and America's addiction to cars. Our urban centers are planned with cars rather than people in mind, making the use of a car mandatory for many people to get to the grocery store, post office, church, school or work.  Not only does this contribute greatly to global warming, (America, with only five percent of the world's population, currently emits 22 percent of the world's greenhouse gases, a fact in part attributable to our over-reliance on cars), it has other Read This Posty »